Improvement in combined spool-stands and button-boxes



JOHN H. DRUM.

Improvement in Combined SpooLStand and Button-Boxes.

Patented May 9,1871.

UNITED STATES JGHN H. DRUM, OF

BETHEL, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SPOOL-STANDS AND BUTTON-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 114,537. dated May9,1871.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. DRUM, of Bethel, Branch county, Michigan,have invented an Improved Spool-Stand and Button- BoX, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention is intended for the use of hand-sewers, and has for itsobject to hold spools of thread of different numbers upon a revolvingstand, so that any one of the spools may be readily brought within easyreach of t-he operator, each spool being subject to the action of aseparate tension device, so as to keep the thread from unwinding toomuch, and the stand being combined with a cylindrical boX that serves tohold buttons, pins, needles, &c.

Referring to the drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation, andFig. 2 a horizontal section, ais a wooden rotatory disk, pivoted at itscenter upon the top of a standard, b, and supporting a circular row ofvertical pins, c, placed far enough apart to admit of spools beinginserted between them lengthwise, the spools being mounted on wires f,passed I through their central oritices,which Wires rest l at their endsin recesses out in the tops of the pins c, whence they are removable.Tensionarms d, projecting from the outside of the button-box A, bearupon the spools, and as the threads also pass through coiled wires e,secured to the disk a in front of the spools, the latter are by thesedevices prevented from discharging too much thread. The boX A is securedto the top of the disk a, and is concentric therewith, and has a cover,A', that ext-ends over the spools and protects them from dust.v On thebeveled edge of the disk a, in front of each spool-space, are paintedthe gures that indicate the number of spool for that space.

I. claim as my invention- The disk a, provided with pins c andtension-coils e, and combined with wires f and tension-arms d, asdescribed.

JOHN H. DRUM.

Witnesses:

DAVID N. GREEN, S. H. AvERILL.

